snuff /ˈsnʌf/
 燭花,用鼻吸氣,嗅,聞,鼻煙,氣味(vt.)剪燭花,掐滅,扼殺,消滅,用鼻吸,嗅出
 snuff /ˈsnəf/ 名詞
 嗅劑,鼻吸藥,鼻煙,嗅,聞,吸
 Snuff n.  The part of a candle wick charred by the flame, whether burning or not.
    If the burning snuff happens to get out of the snuffers, you have a chance that it may fall into a dish of soup.   --Swift.
 Snuff, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Snuffed p. pr. & vb. n. Snuffing.]  To crop the snuff of, as a candle; to take off the end of the snuff of.
 To snuff out, to extinguish by snuffing.
 Snuff v. t.
 1. To draw in, or to inhale, forcibly through the nose; to sniff.
    He snuffs the wind, his heels the sand excite.   --Dryden.
 2. To perceive by the nose; to scent; to smell.
 Snuff, v. i.
 1. To inhale air through the nose with violence or with noise, as do dogs and horses.
 2. To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offense.
    Do the enemies of the church rage and snuff?   --Bp. Hall.
 Snuff, n.
 1. The act of snuffing; perception by snuffing; a sniff.
 2. Pulverized tobacco, etc., prepared to be taken into the nose; also, the amount taken at once.
 3. Resentment, displeasure, or contempt, expressed by a snuffing of the nose. [Obs.]
 Snuff dipping. See Dipping, n., 5.
 Snuff taker, one who uses snuff by inhaling it through the nose.
 To take it in snuff, to be angry or offended. --Shak.
 Up to snuff, not likely to be imposed upon; knowing; acute. [Slang]
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 snuff
      adj : snuff colored; grayish to yellowish brown [syn: snuff-brown,
             mummy-brown, chukker-brown]
      n 1: the charred portion of a candlewick
      2: a pinch of smokeless tobacco inhaled at a single time
      3: finely powdered tobacco for sniffing up the nose
      4: sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose [syn: sniff]
      v 1: sniff or smell inquiringly [syn: snuffle]
      2: inhale audibly through the nose; "snuff coke"